English Questions

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

A brain and nervous system that are poorly developed or insufficiently nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes, just as a poorly constructed or wrongly adjusted motor means loss of power in applying the electric current to its work. We will, __________, look upon the mind and the brain as counterparts of ___________ other, each performing activities which correspond to activities in the other, ________ inextricably bound together at least so far as this life is concerned, and each getting its _______________ by its union with the other. This view will lend interest to a brief study of the brain and nervous system.

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

Then there came faint rays of primrose

X-light that changed presently to golden
Y-bars, through which the dawn
Z-glided out across the desert

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Of the first water

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

Tremulous

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

A person who lives by himself.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Get cracking

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Situated on bank

Select the word with the correct spelling.